[ZodWallop]

Somewhere in there the point of the thread was lost. Maybe I wasn't clear in my original post.

The point is in public perception. Many (most?) e-book articles that I read that aren't at e-book specific sites make many of the same claims the article I linked to did: E-book sales didn't take off like expected. People prefer paper books. And, inevitably, the 'read it in the tub' or 'read it at the beach' argument comes up.

To you and me, a water-proof Kindle would be a nice thing that Amazon is maybe behind the times on. But I'm betting it would generate buzz and bring in lots of new Kindle readers. Similar to the way that Apple can roll out a feature and you hear how they may not have invented X, but they perfected X.

Yeah, it's a bunch of bull, but if it gets more people using e-readers, who cares?